Stargate

The camera crew is clearly visible reflected in the dark sunglasses O'Neil and the rest of the team wear in the beginning of the movie.

This is most noticeable in the Blu-ray release of the movie due to the higher resolution video.

Shadow sizes and directions in the desert scenes.

When Daniel and his team first enter the city, his pendant is tucked under his shirt, but in the next shot out of his shirt, then in the next shot, tucked back into his shirt.

As Colonel O'Neil tries to defuse the bomb, Daniel's mouth doesn't move when he asks "How much time do we have left?" and O'Neil's doesn't move when he answers "forty-five seconds.

" In the first attack on the village, after the leader is knocked down by an explosion, a ship swoops down from the sky and the model's cables and guide wires can be seen.

The pace at which the bomb's timer ticks down changes several times.

When Jackson first picks up the "dead" Sha'uri, her legs are exposed.

A brief moment later, they are covered.

Blood on Anubis's face when he is decapitated by the transport rings.

Cloud patterns changing constantly, and sometimes no clouds at all, between shots during last battle scene.

When O'Neil arms the bomb, he flips the toggle switch up from its downward position.

Later, when he tries to disarm the device, the switch is down again and he once more flips it up.

When the team first exits the pyramid, Jackson presses his hands against the "solid" stone wall as if testing it for stability.

The wall can be seen moving when Jackson presses it.

During the desert battles, crowds of immobile mannequins are visible in the background.

(See also the trivia entry about this.

) When O'Neil kills one of the guards in front of Kasuf, the guard had previously been beating the workers with his staff.

Although the staffs are shown to be rigid in the battle scenes, here it wiggles and recoils after striking the worker, obviously made of rubber.

When Daniel is explaining the six point theory on the white-board, the shape of the cube and the six points vary noticeably between shots.

When Dr.

Jackson and company encounter the guards in the pyramid, he is not wearing his glasses, however, in the next shot after the guard shoots at the others outside, we see Dr.

Jackson with his glasses on.

When O'Neil is thrown into the watery prison cell, Kawalsky's dog tag jumps about between shots.

Additionally, when shot from the front, he is wearing a jacket, but from the back he's wearing only a t-shirt.

When Daniel Jackson reaches the other end of the stargate for the first time his face is all sweaty.

In the next shot his face is completely dry.

Right before the team goes into the Stargate for the first time, Catherine gives her necklace to Daniel.

Shortly after, there is a shot of Catherine watching them go, and you can clearly see the necklace still around her neck.

The three "moons of Abydos" seen above the pyramid are obviously images of Earth's moon, merely re-sized and rotated relative to each other.

The symbol for Orion that doctor Jackson identifies using the newspaper changes.

In earlier shots it does not look like the symbol Jackson draws but when he goes over to the cover stone to compare the symbols they suddenly match.

(Orion's arm and bow appear to make the symbol easier to recognize).

Despite the amount of machinery used to activate the gate on Earth, none was needed on Abydos.

The Stargate's ring spins like a combination lock.

Once the correct symbol is aligned, the mechanism locks it in and the ring is twisted to the next one.

All the machinery in the silo was to ensure that no one had to turn the ring by hand.

It is clear that the cat's mouth does not move the last time the cat meows onscreen.

When the team first gets to the village from the mine camp, Brown takes a picture of the town.

If you look closely, you can see that the shutter on the camera is still closed.

In the opening scene, depicting a car from the 1920s, the sound effect of the horn is obviously of a dual-note horn from a modern car.

When the villagers assist in the Earth group's break for freedom, they seem to have quickly gained an understanding of how sub-machine guns are operated without anyone's help.

While the principle of "point and pull the trigger" is pretty obvious and could be quickly discovered, there is the issue of the safety catch, which would have been enabled while the weapons were stored.

In addition, it would appear that O'Neil's soldiers stored their weapons with the magazines inserted and the guns cocked - something no soldier would do with a weapon that was being transported.

When Ra looks out into the desert and states "The caravan is coming", we see the caravan moving in the distance, approaching the two obelisks near the pyramid.

The shadow of the obelisks is at about 10 o'clock (with the caravan at 12).

The scene then shifts momentarily to seeing the caravan approaching the obelisks from much closer to the obelisks.

The shadow of the obelisks now point down, towards 7 o'clock.

- PLOTWhen Stargate was initially tested with a probe, they had a system that indicated the probe's molecular deconstruction and a star map to show its location, which turned out to be "on the other side of the known Universe".

Although by that point in the movie they had some general idea about Stargate's operation, it wouldn't be enough to construct devices capable of such functions, which go far beyond our present knowledge (the movie clearly implies that the events happen in the 20th century).

In particular, a star map indicating the position "on the other side of the known Universe" simply cannot exist, if only because all existing star maps encompass only a small portion of our Galaxy, which is just a tiny speck compared to the size of the observable Universe.

Somehow they managed to squeeze every star in the Universe into a glass board some 15 feet in length.

After Jackson is awakened by the desert beast, O'Neill looks out into the desert.

You can clearly see the crew and a very large bounce card in the right lens.

During the dial up as the chevrons are locking, the symbols on the computer screens do not match up with what is on the Stargate.

You can see O'Neil's shirt is already cut before the "kid" scratches him on the back in the last fight scene.

'John Diehl' (qv)'s character is continually referred to as "Lieutenant Kawalsky", however, his rank insignia is that of a "Lieutenant Colonel".

A lieutenant colonel is usually addressed as "Colonel", and never a "lieutenant" since the Lt.

Col rank is four steps higher than a lieutenant.

The candy bar that Daniel gives to the village leader isn't melted but still crunchy even after hours spent in the desert in his shirt pocket and being dragged through the sand by the yak-like creature.

Jackson at one point refers to the writing as "heiroglyphics," which no self-respecting Egyptologist would ever do.

"Heiroglypic" is an adjective.

An Egyptologist would call the writing either "heiroglyphs" or "heiroglyphic writing.

" When the transport rings are coming down on the last warrior and Ra screams, his fillings are visible.

Although it's not impossible for a being from a technologically advanced race to use fillings, it is highly unlikely that the filmmakers had this explanation in mind.

When O'Neill and the team first discover the mining operation, the long lines of natives that are supposed to be walking back and forth between the mines and the central tent do not move at all but are in fact static images.

After leaving Col.

O'Neil's house, the 2 Air Force gentlemen get into a car.

As they open the driver and passenger side doors, the numbers are different.

(The numbers should match if it is a true government vehicle with the first 2 digits representing the year the car was made.

The passenger door as 82 while the driver door has 78.

Clearly the vehicle is from the 80's.

) When miners have celebration feast or "welcome party", one group of them sitting around fireplace.

It's clear that fire is coming from a gas ring burner, not wood.

When the Earth team reaches the mining camp and scans the mineral, the readout comes back, "Quartzprimary element.

" Quartz is not an element, but a mineral compound, something a sophisticated mineral analyzer would probably be able to deduce.

Nuclear weapons come fully assembled (for both safety and security reasons not the least of which is to contain radioactivity).

An arming device is required to enable the weapon.

There should be no reason for Colonel O'Neal to do much more than insert the arming device and activate the timer on the weapon.

The gold jewelry given to Daniel Jackson was referred to as the "Eye of Ra.

" However, the engraving on the medallion is the "Eye of Horus.

" There is no such thing as the "Eye of Ra" in Egyptian mythology.

When Jackson first arrives at the room with the cover stones (about 11 minutes in), he is carrying his bags.

The camera cuts to the ring of stones he has been brought there to translate, and when it cuts back to him, his bags are gone.

I watched this one mostly because I like the three actors mentioned above. I was not disappointed in any of them.

The movie was initially interesting and well done. Once the violence started, it turned into generic Hollywood mass shooting nonsense.

If ever there was a perfect sci-fi plot, Stargate has it. And a good script is the most important ingredient in a great film.

In 1928, in Egypt, a strange device is found by an expedition. In the present days, the outcast linguist Dr.

There is little point to going into depth on the obvious fairy-tale absurdities of individual scenes or actions. Rather, it's better to focus on what this film tells us about its audience's primal conceits: that we have the right, the duty, to inflict our cultural understandings on every other being in the universe.

Roland Emmerich directed this Sci-Fi action film as Kurt Russell plays Col. Jack O'Neil, who, along with Dr.

If you are intrigued by the wonder of ancient EGYPT and have an open mind no matter how fantastic the THEORY then this movie will provide food for thought,you know us meager humans once thought the earth was flat but it was our drive for discovery that contradicted that THEORY and now those sea faring wooden crafts that sailed man to the edge of this planet are replaced with space faring technological crafts that will take us to the boundaries of our known galaxy and then we must be prepared for common THEORY to be wrong again because lets face it we simply haven't got there yet and speculation simply wont suffice.This SCI-FI adventure plays on the ALIEN influence associated with ancient EGYPT and suggests that this planet was pre-inhabited long before our brains evolved enough to contemplate such things,an interplanetary device is discovered in EGYPT in 1928 and remains dormant for almost 70 years until a bumbling scientist is enrolled to crack the HIEROGLYPHIC code....

A group of people went imside of the pyramid and they get into a massive problem...its like ghost movie because sometime it gives jerks..

My theory is this, people who gave this movie a bad rating clearly have zero imagination and could suck the fun out of anything they deem "not realistic", when they were born the doctor didn't slap them, they slapped the doctor!.